Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-05
A SENSIBLE WOMAN
Gives her Ideas on Questions Now Being
Leglslated on at Helena.

From what have been reading in Tn
MINER, it seems to me that there is great
deal of wrangling and diverse opinions in
regard to some of the laws. There SCENE
to be q different construction of the laws
Or are the Territorial laws different from
the United States laws? II 50, our rem.
edy is in securing admission as q state
for Montana. am not well posted in re.
gard to this, and only write from personal
and private reasoning. OF course women
have no vote, and I do not advocate
woman suffrage. I think her duty is in q
different sphere OF action, regards which !
may write anon.
The question of women working or not
working. in beer halls and variety theaters
is . question of Importance. But there
are 80 many sides to the question that it
takes q pretty level head to discuss them
nationally. II I could make the laws to
govern this question I would not allow
women to be employed as what is termed
beer jerkers; would not allow any private
boxes in these dives; would raise the
saloon license so high that few only could
afford to pay it, and that would close
many that are only traps for the ignorant.
and the sign saloon" pretension to
saloons at IL o'clock at night, and close
them on the Sabbath. In "the States"
saloon men have to get petition signed
by the majority of the taxpayers of the
county before they can get q license. II q
man was known to keep @ quiet, orderly
house he had little trouble in getting
signers. II he was dissolute himself, and
kept house OF bad repute, license was
denied him a second time; and they are
liable and sometimes have had the third
license revoked and taken away from them.
High license would, in my opinion, place
insure more respect for the law.
l do not say turn these women out Of
employment from these places, and let them
do the best they can; but the inducements
held out by the employers often lead girls
to accept the positions, when if there was
no such inducements offered those girls that
have to work for a support would find
work more suited to their taste and abili-
ties in private families, and if those places
were not allowed to employ them, they
il girls get two and a half and three dol
lars u week in private families, they are
supposed to be getting good wages; here
they are offered $25 and $50 per month.
But whom these dives offer $50, and q
percentage on what they sell, tho induce
ment is too much to resist, and is generally
accepted. Then people wonder why they
have to employ Cinnamon, because they
cannot get white women.
I read an advertisement in a San Fran
cisco ipaper recently, which was worded:
"Wanted-A pianist, at 800 per month. ;"
adding, "the applicant must be handsome
and attractive" Who is willing to spend
almost fortune to educate their hand
some and attractive daughters to accept
q position in a dive at such a price? No,
no! woman's sphere is surely in more ele-
waited fields Of labor. People stare with
wonder at the low, menial positions that
an unjust and discriminating public force
them into, and take no notice of men on
the same level. Not that, in the sight OF
God, the sin is greater for one than the
other; for it is not, except the distance
to fall-from the white height of woman
hood Ito the slums OF the earth. The
fall is only further, the distance to traverse
greater for woman than man. Woman
was intended by our Creator to keep one
spot on the oasis OF life pure, one habita-
ton free from vilenees and sin. There was
intended for eaery woman home, not only
in name, but dedicated, honored and
sacred; hallowed by the sweet influence OF
woman's purity and crowned by the glory
of her natural adoption; lending her influ-
ence to the home, husband and children.
Another question wish to speak OF ID
the question now agitating our legislators,
viz: 1.-THE age at which girl should be to
consent to her ruin.' There should be no
such an age mentioned. A girl at IA is
nothing more than a child, and cannot,
with q child 8 limited experience, realize the
lifelong ruin. Seduction should be termed
criminal offense, and as a crime pun.
ished; and the punishment should be Sc
we're enough to appal anyone that dares
violate the law. l might suggest twenty
years Of solitary confinement as the pen
atty for such an offense.
There is another offense that is commit
ted too frequently-wife beating. But dc
not see that our legislators have got to
that question as yet. I would suggest
that when they do, they will pass bill es
tablishing the whipping post; the penalty
fifty lashes on the bare back with CATO
nine-tails.
Woman might not be success at voting
on all questions OF civil and national poll
tics, but her opinions and suggestions
might be needed, benefcially, in some
things, especially those that interest her
self, her sex, her family, and her immediate
surroundings. Woman is not physically
stronger than man, but mentally she il
quicker; intuitively perceives results, and
generally stronger willed than men.
often laugh to hear people talk OF mans
strength and woman's weakness, when
she who rocks the cradle rules the world. v
MRS. LOUIE CouLsoN.